Excerpt from Elements of Latin DO you know that more than half the words in the English dictionary are Latin and that you are speaking more or less Latin every day? How did this come about? In the first place Latin and English, along with most of the other languages of Europe, are descended from a very ancient mother speech, which has long Since disappeared. They are, therefore, Sister languages and have many words in common. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.